Answers to Stephen's Celebrating Trees Quiz 2024

2024 Tree Quiz for Tottenham Trees with answers with a *
 
1) An iconic tree was illegally felled near Hadrian’s Wall on 28/9/2023. Was it? 

1. A beech
2. An oak or
3. A sycamore * The Sycamore Gap Tree

 
2) The Bruce Castle Oak was runner up as English Tree of the Year in? 

1. 2018 *
2. 2019
3. 2020

 
3) Which of these have no leaves? 

1. Trees
2. Fungi *
3. Books

 
4)  Which of these trees have separate male and female trees? 

1. Beech
2. Holly*** Only females have berries, but males needed nearby to pollinate flowers
3. Sycamore

 
5) The cancer treating drug called paclitaxel was originally produced from which tree? 

1. Yew*** now produced artificially
2. Oak
3. Willow

 
6) Which of these trees most happily grow outside in Haringey?

1. Loquat * plenty in front gardens and a couple in Railway Fields
2. Mango
3. Coconut Palm

 
7) Which of these is a type of UK butterfly? 

1. Holly Blue*** Feeds on holly and ivy flowers.
2. Ash Blue
3. Oak Blue

 
8) The root structure of trees is often described as a? 

1. Dish
2. Cup
3. Plate * The flat structure of the roots

 
9) Honor Oak Park station is on the ? 

1. London Overground * and British rail line
2. Central Line
3. Northern line

10) A footballer who played in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s for Huddersfield, Leeds and Bradford City was a certain? 

1. Mr. Pine
2. Mr. Cherry * Trevor Cherry who also played for England
3. Mr. Beech

 
11) A pest of trees has not yet established itself in the UK, but is waiting in readiness in France, is it? 

1. Oak Processionary Moth already established
2. Beech Processionary Moth
3. Pine Processionary Moth * similar species to Oak.

 
12) How many oak trees were used to rebuild Notre Dame? 

1. Roughly 500 trees
2. A thousand to two thousand trees * from the Forest of Bercé
3. Over two thousand trees

 
13) Which of these is a native tree of New Zealand? 

1. Kotukutuku *
2. Aotearoa
3. Kallara

 
14) Churchyard Bottom Wood is the old name for? 

1. Coldfall Wood
2. Highgate Wood Gravit Pit wood
3. Queens Wood * renamed in 1898 in honour of Queen Victoria

 
15) The UK tree of the year is the Skipinnish Oak of Lochaber, is it named after a? 

1. Scottish Band *
2. Scottish Bay on the Ardnanurchan peninsular
3. Local Scottish Laird

 
16) Which tree should you plant to protect yourself against witches and witchcraft (reputedly)? 

1. Yew
2. Rowan*
3. Ash

 
17) Which historic site boasts a poison garden and a tree house restaurant? 

1. Alnwich Castle gardens *
2. Chatsworth
3. Cragside

 
18) Which country was named after one of its native trees?

1. Bhutan - a name for Tibet
2. Brazil * The name of Brazil is a shortened form of Terra do Brasil, 'land of brazilwood'
3. Lebanon

 
19) Which of these tree names is spelled correctly?

1. Ginkgo*
2. Rowen
3. Plain

 
20) The song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds featured? 

1. Lemon trees
   
2. Orange trees
3. Tangerine trees * and Marmalade skies